cmon lets hear it! hooorah!

AAAAAH!!!! I vowed just today not to read any more spoilers about the album! Couldn't stop myself....

With lyrics like this:
"Be yourself/Be yourself/Come to the ponds and see yourself/And at last your life begins"

I can't wait any longer!

I don't know what to make of this Mozfather stuff though. We shall see.....

Glad to hear there's a lot of acoustic guitar.

Anyway, yeah...2004...the Morrissey strikes back. With a vengeance. = )

So much exposure. Almost everyday there is more news, more reviews and more interviews.

I wonder, maybe it's too much of a good thing?

all the little cacaroaches will feel the mozfather this year hes back an he aint going nowhere. moz oh moz the best things do come to those who wait. congrats on what will be a marvelous album i got this deep gut feeling that america will listen to you finally!!!!

Nice work. You should win an award for ouststanding journalism! Nicely summarised and a tantalising look forward with anticipation to the real thing.

... this is the coolest buildup for an album EVER... I can't fucking wait!

BRING IT ON MOZ!!

;^)

Jay "Some Totally Random Moz Fan"

Hundreds of people must have heard it by now, and still it hasn't leaked. If they can keep it that way until May 17th, they surely deserve a medal.

since 12 years[ this alarming man article],I'm
gonna check out if I can score next weeks NME
in the Netherlands

it's unnatural to see how the NME are lifting
him up [ie Mozfather, guv'nor]after ruining
his carreer in Brittain, in 1992 with the above
mentioned article published the week after
Morrissey's Finsbury debacle

Am I the only one who adored the pictures? I mean, they were smashing, and what cool gaze he has. Far above the average (always stunning) moz pics. He has aged with such grace.

"drinking tea with the taste of the THames"
it's very thoughtful and it's cute!
And
Thank you for staying the darkest hours-
There's no one but you.
Singing is the great work, Steven.
Thank you for saving my life.

He appears to be adopting the 'Gangster Of Indie' look - or, yeah, The Mozfather.

Man, it's so weird. He actually looks pretty intimidating now. Like some guy that would just break your neck for not 'paying up' (like in his tommy gun pic)

In that scan I look at the old 'delicate' and skinny Moz and I miss him a lot.

But, damn, he has figured out how to wear his age and not look like a rockstar struggling to hold on to the past, and that is awesome. I believe that his 'second coming' can last for a while. The reason being his look / image won't change as radically as it has recently. He'll lose hair, get grey, but if he can get people to accept him now as a relevant artist he will basically become another Sinatra. Timeless, and no matter how old, still cool.

Kiss the ring.

moz will be busy over the next couple of months. I hope he doesn't use that as an excuse to stop coming around for tea ......

Although initially I too was fazed by Morrissey ageing and looking every bit like a handsome uncle, I now think he looks more extrodinary than ever.

The earlier post about how he will comfortably become a Sinatra figure is spot on. But not for another 20 years! See, this is Middle-Moz - a fine looking man in his 40's, but he himself has enthused about getting older and come the day when we do get to Late-Moz, in about 2025, he might well be at his peak!

I can envisage a 60+ Morrissey crooning beautifully in the Albert Hall backed by a full orchestra. And who knows, maybe in onbe hundred years time that is how people will remember him at his most iconic?

Strange, but possibly true. All we know is that far from approaching the end, he's just turning a corner into another long straight. There's decades left in the man!

the apocolypse is truly here when moz and NME are on good terms...sorta...i must find a copy in the states somewhere!! viva morrissey!!

I can't wait for the interview (even though I said I'd never buy the NME again), can't wait for the album, can't wait for Manchester, can't wait for Meltdown.... It's all too exciting.

I'm going to lie down with a damp towel and a cup of peppermint tea.

He is the new James Bond. How stunning is he??? WOW!!

The cover (pictured on the last page of this week's issue as a preview of next week's) looks great, it's a good picture of him. The only slightly negative comment I would make is that the cover has large triangle sections in the bottom left and top right hand corners in blue, which advertise a 'giant double-sided Kurt poster', and that's along with all the other writing up and down both sides of the cover (as usual). You'll see what I mean when the scans come in, if you haven't already. It spoils the effect just a little. But I'm not trying to be negative, don't get me wrong, THIS IS MOZ ON THE FRONT COVER OF THE NME! 100% good news.. it's just interesting that this week's issue (Kurt cover) has a couple of sentences of writing on, whereas the Moz one has writing all over it.

Bet it is.....

First of all, the guy is damn handsome. I bet he ends up doing some acting. He looks like one of the Krays in his dark pinstripes.
Good for you Moz.

When does it hit the US stands?

FANTASTIC!!! I can just hear this beautiful album now. Im getting goose bumps as I speak.

For next Saturday. Moz Vegas baby !!!

In the Morrissey universe, there were always two sure things: The Smiths would never reform, and Moz would never speak to the NME again. One down, none to go...

He looks amazing! Like a finely tailored suit with a voice like a perfectly tuned, purring engine.

Viva Moz!

The people marketing him at Sanctuary deserve a lot of recognition. AT LAST he's with a label that's doing its job properly. It's a long time since he's had so much exposure, and I can't wait for his Jonathan Ross appearance. That fortnight in May (TV, single, Manchester, album) is going to be absolutely awesome!

Okay, let me get this straight. On track 1 Morrissey sings, "You've got nothing to say/To me, to help me believe/Oooh oooh woah in America."

Hmmm....his favorite icon: James Dean. Favorite band: New York Dolls. Best friend: daughter of an American icon (Sinatra). His biggest fan base, especially during the mid-90s when English press/fans wouldn't spit on him: Los Angeles. CHOSEN place of residence: do I really need to? Sounds to me like America has already said alot to Morrissey....and he has been shaped by it. If the rest of the album rings this hollow, we may be in for another Southpaw-styled charade. I hope not.

...or is Morrissey starting to look like the Professor from Lost In Space.

"Where the President is never black, female or gay"

We should follow after the UK -- after all Margaret Thatcher was the first black, female, and gay to hold elected office.

Well, Im excited to hear it-all except the one about America; it sounds really lame, I must say. Looks like Moz is well versed in liberal indocrination. Oh well, hopefully the rest is good.

Why is that people are getting so angsty about America not being the world? Is this a shock? Didn't you realise?

I think the point of the song is to tell the American Government and all the bigots who believe that America's interests are the only one's that have any right to be followed that they are misguided. There is a whole world and America is making decisions (many of them quite ignorant of other countries) for everyone.

Morrissey has always stood up for the 'little guy' and I feel this is just another song where Morrissey voices a miniorities opinion. It's not you? Deal with it. Besides, isn't one of the main ideas of America free speech? Oh, that's right we have every right to our own opinion just as long as it agrees with yours.

As Morrissey says, 'America, I love you. But you are not the world.'

This cover photo is great! capone, brando, pacino, deniro... beware! morrissey is back in town, guys!

I love the american culture. I hate the american politic. Simple...

I have loved Morrissey's music, his wit, his style and his taste for 9 years now. His music guided me through a dark period in my life. That's why it is so painful to see that Morrissey's political views mistakenly paint him as a cliche and flake. His views are devoid of ANY originality or true depth of analysis. If he could just be a pop star my world could be perfect. Instead...we get his disturbingly inane, Bono-like vitriol concerning America's rightful place in the world (read: we got to the top and we've stayed here because we do things right, not wrong). I imagine he sees the world so simply because he never took a college international politics course (and apparently neither have any of his fans), but this fact does not mitigate the agony of his political cliches.

I have many friends in this country, and I really admire and respect these people....
"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal."

But the USA politicians are a bunch of assholes!

Morrissey, like anyone, have the right to express opinions, political or not.

Fucking in the "BUSHES"

There's no deep meaning about what he said,
he tells what he thinks, and may be it's not
the things that everyday people thinks,
he always asks questions to see what's happening,
He's not to offend someone, he says with the wit.
I still think "you say too muuuuuuch?`"but I think
tha's whay I like Morrissey.

... right around the time of his best works, namely 1992-1995. I'm a fan of all Smiths/Moz albums, but I can't say i was big on his earlier younger thin/pale look with the Smiths. On the other hand, at this stage of his life, not only his he greyed but he has gained some weight and his face is a bit more puffed and less-healthy looking. Nothing *wrong* with that, it's just him aging is all.

But nothing will beat the way Moz looked around the time of his best album, Vauxhall and I. Particularly in the "Introducing Morrissey" video, god I loved that one. He was unbelievably handsome and debonair, with his trim appearance, mid-30s/early-40s distinguished look, the sport coat, and he was still embracing Britain as his home and an idealistic Britain as the best country in the world. I watch him in Introducing Morrissey and I just *KNOW* that is/was his total peak. He even once said, shortly after the release of Southpaw, that he didn't think he'd ever create another album as good as Vauxhall.

I'll take the stylish, distinguished, pro-British, mature mid-30's, decidedly more hetero Morrissey on the cover of "Vauxhall and I" and in the Introducing Morrissey video over earlier Moz (skinny, pale, more gay-looking ie. the November... video) or recent Moz (greying, definitely looks older, embraces L.A. and hispanic culture, less morose, etc.).